it's a lot. that's our broadcast for this monday night as we start a new week. thank you so very much for being here with us. on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night from our temporary field headquarters. an emotional plea from the family of rayshard. they're calling for changes to the criminal justice system after their loved one was shot by atlanta police on friday night. also, a landmark decision by the supreme court in a 6-3 ruling. the supreme kouft justices have determined you can't be fired for being gay or transgender. and a blowup at the office amid tensions with south korea. good morning, everybody, it is june 16th, and i'm yasmin

vossoughian. we've investigate a lot to cover this morning. we're going to begin with the anger and unrest in atlanta following friday's officer-involved shooting death of rayshard. thousands of protesters peacefully marched to georgia's state capitol yesterday. meanwhile the family called for drastic police changing. >> not only are we hurt. we are angry. when does this stop? we're not only pleading for justice. we're pleading for change. we stood with the atlanta police department when they were just tearing up our city and said this doesn't happen here, leave them alone. and here we are three weeks later. those same police took something away from our family that we'll never get back, rayshard. >> there's no justice that can ever make me feel happy about what's been done. i can never get my husband back. i can never get my best friend.

i can never tell my father he's coming to take you scathe or swimming lessons. so this is going to be a long time before i heal. it's going to be a long time before this family heals. >> so just hours after that emotional news conference, the mayor of atlanta announced a series of new police reforms following the shooting death of rayshard. among the changes, officers will now have to use de-escalation tech neeks before deploying deadly force. officers will also be, quote, dutybound to intercede when they see other officers involved in applications of deadly force. atlanta's mayor announced every member be treated with dignity

and respect. >> it's clear we do not have another day, another minute, another hour to waste. we saw the worst happen on friday night with mr. brooks. it angered me and it saddened me beyond words, but i know that it is my responsibility as mayor of this great city for us to continue to work to put the anger and that sadness into action. >> and as the calls for racial justice continues, top white house economic adviser larry kudlow once again claimed he doesn't believe in systemic racism. >> you say i don't believe there's systemic racism in the u.s., which i found surprising, larry, given the data we've seen post-covid-19. can you just clarify what you meant?

>> i don't believe in systemic racism. i believe the american system is the best system ever devised for mankind, for history. here's a thought. possib president obama was the first black president and got elected twice. he got 79 million white votes in two elections. therefore i find it hard to understand something called systemic racism. is this a systemic problem? no. it means america's bad. i don't believe that. i don't believe that at all. >> larry, i don't think it means america's bad. i think you have to look at the skpla nations for why the net worth of a white family is ten times more than for a black family or a black family led by a household with an advanced degree doesn't make as much as a white family who's led by a family with a high school degree. the statistics are endless.

half of black men don't have jobs, black adults. i think that's what people are referring to when they talk about systemic racism in society. >> i'm not sure what this term "systemic" meansle. you're describing very important economic problems, family breakup problems. this is a complicated matter. we won't settle it, i doubt, on this broadcast or this interview. >> just fyi, systemic means it permeates every social system of this country. it's historic. it's 400 years of racism in this country, which verifiably exists, and obviously larry kudlow has not experienced any of it or seen it in his time, but it exists in this country, and it is alive as well. breaking news this morning also, south korea says north

korea has blown up a building inside its border. it had threatened to demolish an office over south korea's activists to fly propaganda flyers over. also president trump is pressing ahead with his rally in tulsa on saturday amid the coronavirus pandemic. this is coming despite the data from "the new york times" which shows a dramatic spike in covid cases in oklahoma. vice president mike pence insists the state has flattened the curve. >> oklahoma has been in the forefront of our efforts to slow the spread and in a very real sense, they flattened the curve. and today their hospital capacity is abundant. the number of cases in oklahoma

has declined precipitously. we feel very confident going forward with the rally this coming weekend. we're working closely with the governor. we'll have members in place being screened coming into the facilities, but oklahoma has really led the way. >> joining us now, white house political reporter gabby orr. good morning. >> good morning. >> president trump say's he's being shamed. but you have the health direct never the county and the city that has encouraged the president to postpone this rally amid the spiking numbers we're seeing with the coronavirus. do you think, "a," there's going to be a turnout, and, "b," how

is this going to impact the election when you have a president continuing to push forward with a campaign rally and you have thousands of folks still contracting the coronavirus on a daily basis? >> well, first of all, that's exactly the question that a lot of officials in oklahoma are asking themselves. take the state where the president is doing this, the state that voted for him in 2015. there's really no need for him to rally in oklahoma, and that was pointed out this weekend, saying it's simply not save for the president to come and a lot of local officials are wired about the president contributing to the spread of the coronavirus by holding this massive rally. i talked to folks on the trump campaign who claim about a million people are up for this. the rally may not be that big, but you could expect the numbers

to get into the thousands. right now it's not clear what kind of social distancing practices will be put in place, whether people's temperatures are going to be taken before they enter the arena, also the things that would exist to safely hold a political event like this. meanwhile the white house is still warning us about more coronavirus in the fall. dr. anthony fauci has obviously been very focal about the likelihood of a wave of deadly outbreaks in the fauchlt right now the president is focused almost exclusively on pushing this message of reopening and using his presidential campaign to do that. >> let's get back to this breaking news that i just mentioned out of north korea.

just a couple of days ago, pyongyang threatening to ramp up. how do you think the president is going to react to the news now that north korea has just blown up this liaison office. >> it has to be a wakeup call for president trump because for the past two years since he and kim jong-un had that meeting in singapore, he has touted his personal diplomacy, his ability to pursue the denuclearization of north korea through his personal relationship with its chairman, and obviously that's not working. and i think the new this morning out of south korea with the attack of the liaison office puts it in clear terms. this comes after several overtures by north korea to criticize the united states and

president trump and saying he's been making empty promises in terms of denuclearization. >> gabby orr, stay close. thank you. i'll talk you do in just a little bit. still ahead, a new milestone for lgbtq rights. a new law that works can not be fired. those stories and much more when we come back.

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welcome back. the opinion was written by neil gorsuch who along with justice john roberts voted with the members of the liberal court.

the titling at of 1964 which discriminates on the basis of sex and transgender status. gorsuch writes this -- an employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. sex plays a necessary role. justice alito said no one in 1964 would have thought, quote, discrimination because of sex meant because of sexual orientation or gender identity. joining me now, nbc legal analyst danny cevallos. good morning. a major win for the lgbtq community at large with all of this, but it did surprise a lot of folks that this

conservative-leaning supreme court would decide in favor of the lgbtq community. what did you make of it? >> i'm one of the very surprised people that this opinion came from justice gorsuch. when you think about it, it's considered very simple. you look at the statute. does the statute say the words "transgender" or address sexual preference? it does not. it says sex. therefore, thas the conservativ consent ter consenters, it does not. gorsuch said look at any time you discrimination against anybody for their sexual preference. if that person was a female, the essentially you can't discriminate. i've handled some of these cases. the narrowness in which the

courts has interpreted sex has been very challenging over the years. it's very interesting because he took tex turlism and applied it toward the definition of sex rather than the language of title 7, which doesn't contain this protection. >> so what does this say about how the court may likely come down on other cultural disputes, shall we say? >> it's not a sure thing, but this analysis could be applied to other federal laws, for example, title ix and other laws based on sechlkts it's not a sure thing because as the court will point out, this is a different statute and each requires an interpretation of that text. but because they contain such similar language, look for this to be applied possibly to other cases. but on the other happened, look for this case to join the ranks of roe v. wade, the kind of case

that should president trump appoint more conservative judges to the court, will this be the kind of case that's always up, causing anxiety and where it stands of being overturned. while it's a victory, it will cause controversy for decades to come. >> danny say vcevallos, great t you this morning. >> up next, a new outbreak has people scrambling. we'll go live to beijing for the latest. we're back in a moment.

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countries don't have testing. if we stopped testing, we'd have very few cases if any. >> that was the president yesterday repeating his bizarre logic on testing for the coronavirus and the number of cases. the president also tweeted on the subject saying in part this. testing is a double-edged sword. makes us look bad, but good to have. the president's comments comes as the weekly number of cases have increased. the number of daily tests has declined since the beginning of this month. that's according to a covid tracking product and "the new york times." in another 14 states it's outpacing the increase in the average number of tests. i want to turn overseas as well. authorities in china rushing to contain a new outbreak there. i want to brick in -- bring in

janis mackey frayer. >> reporter: it might seem slight when we're talking about cases per day in other parts of the world, but it's come as a jolt because the city has gone 56 straight days without having a new domestic case. it all seems to be centered on the wholesale food market. it's the biggest in asia. it's where beijing gets about 80% of its food supply, so they've been acting quite quickly since this first came to light at the end of last week. they've locked down neighborhoods around the market. the're asking people who are living there to quarantine. there's a mass testing campaign

that's happening around the city. some 200 sites have been set up. tens of thousands of people are being tested every day. and officials say day're using aggressive contact tracing measures to be able to track down 200,000 people who they believe have visited the market. what they want to do is get the situation under control, officials admitting they do not want beijing to be a second wuhan. >> i also wanted to ask you, janis about the news we reported out of south korea at the top of the show, north korea blowing up a liaison office with south korea. >> reporter: it was telegraphed by the sister of kim jong-un, kim jo-jong carrying out this

public display of discontent. she warned on the weekend the office would collapse and that's certainly what would happen. south korean officials reported the building was exploded. it's a brand-new building built in 2018. it was to be a place where the two sides could come together to foster relations. what analysts believe is happening is north korea is trying to use the spotlight as leverage to not only gain on the propaganda front domestically but also to pressure south korea to help it win concessions from the international community, namely the united states. frustration has been growing and obviously has come to a head. yasmin? >> all right. nbc's janis mackey frayer.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin this half hour as the president says he will sign an executive order on police reform later today. he claims it will be, quote, very comprehensive. so far we know it's expected to

include databases that track police officers with multiple incidences of misconduct as well as languages that encourages departments to involve mental health professionals when dealing with issues of homelessness, addict iinaddicti mental health. meanwhile mitch mcconnell wants to vote before the recess. the south carolina rep is currently working on that proposal. and president trump made his first public comments concerning the rayshard shooting in atlanta. watch this. >> i thought it was a terrible -- i'm not going to compare thingsings, but i thought it was a terrible situation. i study it closely. i'm going to get some reports done today, very strong reports, and i'll have a little more to

say about it tomorrow, but certainly to me it was very disturbing. >> the white house tells nbc news the white house plans to meet today with black families affected by police violence. also he declined to offer specifics on when or how he might intervene. trump has been fixated over the past week on what demonstrators have been living in what is dubbed the capitol hill awe on the miss zone, calling them anarchists. >> if they don't do the job, i'll do the job. i've already spoken to the attorney general about it. but if they don't do the job, we will do the job. >> trump suggest head could go

about, quote, ten different things and accused the media for giving the protests proper promotion. senior campaign officials confirm that attendees will not be screened as much as high campaign donors. face masks will be offered to all rallygoers, though, they will not necessarily be required. they're going to take temperatures. there's no plan to test any of the supporters who will attend the meg ya rally in oklahoma where the cases have spiked in recent days, and the sweltering heat may complicate temperature readings as well. the trump campaign did not say what would happen if there was an unusually high fever or what the cut-off would be.

by cob draft, top republicans donors at two of trump's most recent fund-raisers tested negative and filled out a wellness test to be near him. they had the costs paid by the trump campaign and republican national committee. also according to "the new york times", vice president mice pence has encouraged governors to adopt the administration's claim that increased testing helps account for the new outbreak reports even though evidence has shown that that evidence is actually misleading. based on audio obtained by the "times" pence said to emphasize, quote, the magnitude of increased testing. and he asked them this. encourage people with the news ta we're safely reopening the country. nbc news has not verified or

obtained the call in question. the president played down the overall size, stressing he was seeing what he called intermittent continental calls of the virus. pence also answered this. in spite of the increase, the u.s. is testing 26,000 a day. this is coming despite analysis collected by "the times" which shows outbreaks have increased since may 31st. in 14 states the positive rate is increasing. joining me now once again white house reporter for politico, gabby orr. first off, what are you expecting to hear or see on the president's executive order on police reform, and do you think,

foresee this having any impact on the continuing national protests? >> well, the white house has been scant on details so far, but senior white house officials held a phone call explaining that the executive order today, we can expect to see funding incentive for police departments based on their recruiting, based on their safety practices, based on institutional reforms they've implemented. one thing a senior official told us is they're encouraging police departments to encourage the police communities they will be patrolling. there will be funding incentives. the white house says they've talked to numbers of faith leaders, of african-american congressmen, african-american community leaders in crafting this executive order. they said it will be robust, but, again, the only details

that we really heard so far on those funding incentives. whether or not it will impact them, you know, i think it's difficult to square an executive order like this with a lot of the rhetoric that we've seen out of the white house at this point. just yesterday we heard larry kudlow say there's no such thing as systemic racism in the united states. attorney general bill barr has made similar statements whether or not bias exists within law enforcement. so on the one hand we have this executive order and on the other we have what the administration officials are telling us, and it's difficult to reconcile this. >> it doesn't necessarily seem like people recognize systemic racism exists in this country. i also want to quickly touch on the threat the president is making on washington officials,

especially the mayor and governor, for failing to break up this group of protesters who have occupied this autonomous zone in the city. do you have any inkling or are you hearing at all as to whether or not the president will actually intervene? >> i have not heard whether or not the president will dually intervene, but if you look at the way he responded to some of the protests that happened in minneapolis, i imagine that behind the scenes he is discussing ways to intervene with attorney general bill barr, possibly deploying national guard trips to parts of seattle where this autonomous zone had formed. but right now, it's not exactly clear what the president meant when he said yesterday he has ten ways where he could break up this zone in downtown seattle. of course, this is something he's going to try to use as part

of his re-election campaign. we know the president is no fan of washington governor jay inslee. he called him a snake during the coronavirus, so i imagine he's eager to square off with democratic officials in the state. >> i think this interesting thing here, though, gabby, we have heard empty threats like this one from the president when it's come to countries overseas, countries like north korea and iran where he's threatened to act and said he has a lot of things in his back pocket he could feasibly use. this time he's using it against his own people, against the citizens of this country, which is the most troubling. gabby, thanks as always. still ahead this morning, major league baseball is about to face the prospect of a 2020 seas season. your first look at "morning joe"

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commissioner rob manfred walked back comments made last week that, quote, unequivocally we're going to play major league baseball this year. after pegging the likelihood at 100% when manfred was asked yesterday if there will be a season told espn this. i'm not confident. i think there's a real risk, and as long as there's no real dialogue, the real risk is going to continue. according to the "los angeles times," he told the players association they will not proceed with a schedule unless the league waives a grievance hearing. in a statement, the players association said this. players are disgusted that after rob manfred unequivocally told players and fans there would

100% be a 2020 season, he has decided to go back on his word and is now threatening to cancel the entire season. any implication that the players association has delayed progress is completely false as rob has recently acknowledged that the parties are very, very close. now, this latest threat is one more indication that major league baseball has been negotiating in bad faith since the beginning. this has always been about extracting additional pay cuts from players, and this is just another day and bad faith tactic in the ongoing campaign. meanwhile "usa today" reporting that several players and coaches have tested positive for the coronavirus. according to the paper, the news of positive tests and fear of a second wave of the virus wiping out the postseason, mlb deputy commissioner dan hallam says is

the reason they're looking at finishing the regular season on november 22nd. he vigorously denies that they're trying to play as few regular season games as possible to save money. with that let's switch gears and get a check with the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning to you, bill. >> good morning to you, yasmin. first let's look at the covid curves and then get to the forecast and climate news. first off, kind of our average typical day. we got 22,000 cases. the stating reporting the most 1rks,000-plus from california, texas, arizona yesterday. as far as fatalities went, we continued on the low side. monday was 425. that was the lowest monday report going back to march 23rd.

as far as the fatality curve,ite benz getting lower. as far as the weather, eastern north carolina pushing up around norfolk and virginia beach. a lot of rain. it's going to feel like a weak tropical storm is nearby. it will be windy and rainy. there shouldn't be too much flooding. it may end up toward the norfolk area. so the forecast for today, just another gorgeous day in new england. i hope you've been enjoying the sunshine and low humidity. it won't last forever. very hot in the middle of the country. tomorrow, kind of a repeat. the rain moves into areas of virginia. georgia enjoys one more low heat and humidity. yesterday was the hottest may ever recorded on our planet. we got that in from noaa. it tied 2016. the ten warmest mays all

occurred in the last 22 years and we're saying this is the top warmest year. just because it hasn't been in the headlines lately, this problem isn't going anywhere. >> it certainly is not. thank you, bill. still ahead, everybody, we're going to go live to cnbc for how wall street is reacting to the latest plans to a sputtering economy. the news is coming up. it's gentle on her skin, and dermatologist recommended. new tide pods plus downy free. safe for sensitive skin with eczema and psoriasis. among my patisensitivity as well tas gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely. new sensodyne sensitivity & gum gives us the dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. there's no question it's something that i would recommend. with spray mopping to lock away debris and absorb wet messes, all in one disposable pad.

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welcome back. following a rough couple of days in the negative on wall street, stock futures are pointing toward positive gains on news that a $1 trillion infrastructure plan is in the works. cnbc's julianna tatelbaum is with us live from london. good morning to you. great to see you. how are markets looking? >> good morning. markets are looking up. but let me take you back. the federal reserve came out

announcing it will start buying individual corporate bonds. this effectively deepens the federal reserve's reach. they're going to further prop up the u.s. economy through this measure. so we strongly on the back of this and close higher. and now this morning we're looking at further gains for wall street after overnight it emerged in a report by bloomberg news that the trump administration is considering a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal. the bulk of the funds are set to go to new roads and bridges. some of the funds are earmarked for building up 5g networks. this is more than double the proposal set forth by democrats earlier this month and it could come into law when the current funding law runs out as early as september. so a big sentiment boost on the back of both these sentiments and seeing global markets rally on this news. yasmin. >> julianna tatelbaum live from

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i can't complain about it, i took it for two weeks and i'm here. here we are. and we've had some great studies. i didn't know about the report that jeff asked about or the statement. but we've had some great reports coming out of france, coming out of spain, coming out of other places. the only place we don't get necessarily reports coming out of alex's agency or wherever they come from. i don't understand that, alex. what is it exactly? i have had so many people that were so thrilled with the results from hydroxy. so what is that exactly? >> at your direction we continued to study, especially in earlier phase, so a lot of the data that has come out, that

was more negative was people who were quite ill in the hospital. >> people that were like seriously ill. like they weren't going to make it. let's give them a little hydroxy and they don't make it and they say, wow, maybe the president was wrong. all you know is that we've had tremendous reports. i've had a lot of people tell me they think it saved their lives. >> so that is the president touting his own experience with hydroxychloroquine over the expertise of his own agency in their studies and also mentioning those studies coming out of europe as evidence to counter the fda. let's get into with axios joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m., reporter alexi mchammond. great to see you.

i know we had audio issues last time i saw you, hopefully you're up and running. talk to us about axios' one big thing. >> today one big thing is about yesterday's historic supreme court ruling on lgbtq nondiscrimination. which can sideline the trump administration's new policies around health care and adoption. the ripple effect is likely to be felt immediately and has the potential to derail the regulations that the trump administration has actually finalized in just the last few days alone around things like health care and adoption. some things that former president barack obama put in place that president trump is rolling back. one interesting quote from an activist on the front lines of this policy war, this person texted a colleague of mine, mike allen, and said for so many years we waited for politicians to have the courage and once

again the courts have led the way in making the promise of the constitution a reality. so you're seeing how some folks on one side are happy with the court's rulings and feeling jaded about the fact that they think their politicians aren't going to do the right thing. >> feeling jaded about what's happening in washington, that they are just at a stand still here. >> let's also talk about the coronavirus. axios reporting that a lot of americans are understandably worried about a second wave of the coronavirus as we are seeing spikes across the southern part of the country and the west as well. you think about that, and then you also think about the fact that in two months or so we'll be talking about whether or not schools will be reopening across this country and whether or not businesses will remain open or reopen if they have remained closed. talk to us about the impact there. >> that's the interesting thing, yasmin. according to this survey that we conducted with ipsos, eight in

ten americans are worried about a second wave. and to your point that makes it difficult for businesses and co schools who are looking to public opinion in part, of course also looking to the health experts and science but looking at whether and how to reopen and when. and that's difficult to do when you're seeing how afraid people are. the interesting thing too the trump campaign is hosting this rally in tulsa on saturday. initially they were taking this nothing to see here approach. but that mentality is not rubbing off on the broader public. we see they're offering hand sanitizers and face masks to rally goers. so they're seeing the same data our survey shows, more americans may be willing to go out and about but more and more americans are worried about the risk factor associated with this. >> so you bring up the president's rally. so 2020 election season, it was sputtering for a while, because

the pandemic but now it seems like it's back in full force with the president's rally. but also with that, you had the former vice president coming out strong. you had former president obama now joining the former vice president with his fund-raising efforts in an online event next week. this is a pretty significant move, alexi, for biden ahead of the 2020 election. tell us about this. >> yasmin, i think this move from the biden campaign is a clear warning shot to the trump campaign. it's signaling clearly that biden and his team are willing to bring in someone like obama who is a heavy hit e in the democratic party, he can be a polarizing figure but, of course, any attention these days when the election is sidelined is a good thing. obama's ability to fund raise and raise a lot of money in a short amount of time for biden is a good thing. the campaign said they're hoping to surpass a fund-raiser they held with mayor pete buttigieg, which raised $1 million.

i will note according to the report last night a fund-raiser with senator elizabeth warren, she raised $6 million for biden. so he's bringing in the heavy hitters and obama is a warning shot to trump that this is what biden is going to do to raise money and compete with trump on an even level, or as close to even as he can, money wise. >> and, of course, senator elizabeth warren possible vp pick. alexi thank you. i'll be reading axios in a little bit you can sign up at axios.com. that does it for me this morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. again our testing is so far advanced it's bigger and better than any other country that we're always going to have more cases. as i said this morning that's probably the down side of having good testing you find